Caveat emptor!!!

[ALEX]

Originally Posted by ariel

I have to repectfully disagree: Assad Ullah was a real person,
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And as for a blade with Assad Ullah's stamp going for $4K... the seller must have known what he was selling.... But, if true, the $18,000 price for one of the swords in question would be even harder to justify, isn't it?

Ariel,

Yes, AL was a Real Person, but would a Ford car sticker indicate Henry Ford built it himself? Once again, Al was a school, and I think many AL-name-stamps were used by his students. Just in the past month alone I saw at least 20 AL-NAME stamps, all are genuine old, authentically carved or coftgaried. Have I seen 10% of all AL-made blades already

Please look at this post:
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...0275#post20275

The top stamp reads "Made by AL of Isfahan". The bottom is "Yakadia al-Hajad"/"O Fulfiller of Needs". The first, by the way, is a NEW stamp (I know the maker). And it fulled many. If it'd stamped 100 years ago, noone would know